"Underworld 1 & 2" writer/helmer Len Wiseman is in discussions to direct a fourth "Die Hard" film for 20th Century Fox says The Hollywood Reporter.

The fourth installment of the franchise finds hero John McClane coming out of retirement to battle an Internet terrorist organization. Bruce Willis will reprise his role as the fearless cop.

Mark Bomback and Doug Richardson penned the screenplay, which at one point was titled "Die Hard 4.0". The three "Die Hard" films have earned $740 million worldwide and influenced a generation of action filmmaking.

GFS (Google File System) is a distributed file system. A Distributed File System is one that supports sharing of files and resources, which are stored persistently over the network. GFS is implemented by Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, and Shun-Tak Leung. When I read their original paper on this file system, all questions I asked above were answered respectively. This is what they had to say:

"While sharing many of the same goals as previous distributed .le systems, our design has been driven by observations of our application workloads and technological environment, both current and anticipated that reflect a marked departure from some earlier file system assumptions.….The file system has successfully met our storage needs. It is widely deployed within Google as the storage platform for the generation and processing of data used by our service as well as research and development efforts th…

Finland's victorious monster rockers LORDI seem prone to breaking record after record. After not only achieving the highest ever Eurovision score at the Athens contest, Friday (May 27th) evening's street celebrations for the band were the largest public gathering ever seen in Helsinki's history.

According to official police estimates, the crowd at the free concert in the Market Square numbered around 90,000, which is twice the capacity of the Olympic Stadium. [Watch a clip of LORDI's performance at Helsinki's Market Square at this location. Footage of the crowd can be found here.

This smashes the figure for Finland's victorious hockey players who returned to Helsinki victorious in 1995, and were cheered by crowds of up to 30,000. Previously, Latin songstress Shakira had also drawn large crowds at an open-air concert in Kaivopuisto Park, but still with only 80,000 fans present, she comes in at second place to Lordi.

2006-05-31 03:17:13BW&BK has learned that Finnish bashers NORTHER have put out the following casting call via their official website:

"Solar Films / Vares 2 (just so you know, an upcoming Finnish detective movie based on a best selling book series) is looking for extras for a Norther metal gig which will be shot on 20th June at 11 in Kulttuuritalo Vernissa (Tikkurilantie 36, 01300 Vantaa). If you look metal and are interested, SIGN UP IMMEDIATELY! There are limited places and they will be filled on a first come first serve basis. Fans under 16 years of age are allowed to come only with their parents. Once again, since the places are limited, call immediately! Call Saara (+358 45 6365266) on working days between 9:00am and 5:00pm (GMT + 2:00). Signing up by calling in advance is mandatory!"

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060530c.php Arad told the trades that "The first reaction, which we should discard, is here comes 'X-Men 4'. We're working on 'Wolverine,' which is definitely a continuation, and we have a very interesting script about a young Magneto".

Will Fox change their tune and pressure him for a fourth? Seems unlikely due to the expense involved. In many ways it now seems that "Wolverine" will serve as the unofficial fourth film sometime either in 2008 or 2009.